Words that rhyme with pottery

  • buttery
    adj 1: unpleasantly and excessively suave or ingratiating in manner or speech; "buttery praise"; "gave him a fulsome introduction"; "an oily sycophantic press agent"; "oleaginous hypocrisy"; "smarmy self-importance"; "the unctuous Uriah Heep"; "soapy compliments" [syn: buttery, fulsome, oily, oleaginous, smarmy, soapy, unctuous] 2: resembling or containing or spread with butter; "a rich buttery cake" n 1: a small storeroom for storing foods or wines [syn: pantry, larder, buttery] 2: a teashop where students in British universities can purchase light meals
  • contributory
    adj 1: tending to bring about; being partly responsible for; "working conditions are not conducive to productivity"; "the seaport was a contributing factor in the growth of the city"; "a contributory factor" [syn: conducive, contributing(a), contributive, contributory, tributary]
  • lottery
    n 1: something that is regarded as a chance event; "the election was just a lottery to them" 2: players buy (or are given) chances and prizes are distributed by casting lots [syn: lottery, drawing]
  • tottery
    adj 1: unsteady in gait as from infirmity or old age; "a tottering skeleton of a horse"; "a tottery old man" [syn: tottering, tottery]
  • watery
    adj 1: filled with water; "watery soil" 2: wet with secreted or exuded moisture such as sweat or tears; "wiped his reeking neck" [syn: reeking, watery] 3: relating to or resembling or consisting of water; "a watery substance"; "a watery color" 4: overly diluted; thin and insipid; "washy coffee"; "watery milk"; "weak tea" [syn: watery, washy, weak]
  • distributary
    n 1: a branch of a river that flows away from the main stream and does not rejoin it [ant: affluent, confluent, feeder, tributary]
  • cautery
    n 1: an instrument or substance used to destroy tissue for medical reasons (eg removal of a wart) by burning it with a hot iron or an electric current or a caustic or by freezing it [syn: cautery, cauterant] 2: the act of coagulating blood and destroying tissue with a hot iron or caustic agent or by freezing [syn: cautery, cauterization, cauterisation]
  • bijouterie
  • fluttery
  • persecutory
  • scutari
  • martyry
  • godwottery

See also pottery definition and pottery synonyms